Wall structure.



F. L. UNION. WALL STRUCTURE.

APPLICATlON FILED NOV. 20. 19M.

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, Patented Oct. 3,1916.

FRANK L. a e, or new YORK, N. 311, Assmn on o UNION IPAZRTITION- coivrrnnyj or nos'ron, assacncsnrrs, A conPoRATIoN orl MASSACHUSETTS. 1

; niee'sa pg To all whom it may concern: i Be it known that-I, FRANK L. UNION, a citizen of the United States of America, residing at New York, borough of Manhattan, county and State'o'f New York, have in vented certain new and useful. Improvements in Wall Structures, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to and particularly to such structures wherein plates, slabs, boards such as plaster boards, and sheet metal laths are used.

One of theobjects of the invention is to provide a simple and efficient means for constructing suchwalls.

Another object of the invention is to provide turel. I

These being among the objects of. the present invention, others of which Will appear hereinafter, the invention consists of certain features of construction to be hereinafter describedandthen claimed with reference to the accompanying drawings il1us-- trating an embodiment of the invention, and infwhich- V 1 a p F igure 1 is an elevation of a wall constructed partly in accordance with the present invention showing individual resilient members, except that no outer layer of, plaster or finishing; material has been applied; Fig. 2 is a similar view, showing the in,divid ual resilient members illustrated in Fig. 1 as flexed and put under tension so as to act to bind the plates,boards or. the like in position; Fig. 3is a transverse section of a wall constructed inv accordance with the present invention; Figs. 4 and '5 are detail views .showing suitable means for connecting the 4G support; and Figs. 6, 7 and 8 show details.

Referring to the drawings, the floor- 10 and the ceiling 11 of a building'structure for instance, has'a door frame 12 and a win dow frame 13 for one Wall thereof. In,this

,case, preferably struts 14, 15 connect thef floor and ceiling and are located just along= side the sides of said frames. These struts are preferably made of channel iron, as shown in cross-section in Fig. 3, with their webs secured next to the frames 12, 13, and

their flanges extending away from the same. I

Thereby grooves such as 16 are provided for the reception ofthe adjacent ends of the 1. plates, slabs, boards or 'the'like' 1?, which went STRUCTURE.

Specification of Letters latent. Application filed November 20, 1914]. Serial 110,873,192.

tion or Wall. lVhether or wall structures,

. Said individual resilient a substantial and efficient wall struos I sald individual resilient or bolts 20 which also pass 1 bers of each Patented one. a, 1916."

constitute considerable part of the not the saidchan-i; nel bars are made use of, theflsaid plates,

. slabs, boards,etc. 17 are supported in position by means of parts whichsupportthe to same preferably from theiroppo site faces,

To this end there are preferably employed a plurality of individual resillent members.

such as 18 which are located in substantially;

the same plane parallelwith the .wallqand,

are separated a suitable distance apart. a members may coni sist of bars or. rods of Steel or iron, with their. upper and lower ends suitably and rigidly secured directly to the ceiling and .floor, ;as, by'the connections illustrated in Figs. land; 5. As shown in these views," the ends of themembers arepros vlded with eyes 19 through which pass riyets I, through brackets-.76 21 suitably secured to the beams such as 22. In Fig. 1, these individual resilient members.

, are shown as substantially parallel, and this I is the position which they will be'in, in this form of the invention when they are first connected up at their ends directly to the ceiling and floor to form the eventualwall structure. The said individualv resilientf';

members may then be bent or flexed substan-m tially as shown in Fig. 2, so that thoseof the '35 adjacent 'pairs are fiexed: or bent toward each otherso as to place them under. tension in a direction zit-substantially right angles? to their extent, or they, may be. obviously? flexed in some equivalent way.v As shown, the individual resilient mem-Jn pair are flexed toward- 1each other, by passing a tie or band 23 of wireior' sheet metal around the two members of eitchxi ends of the individual resilient members to a together.

pair and twisting the ends of said tie or bandl; When the ,saidbandslor ties have been suflicien'tlytighteneduup, thepairsef individual resilient members willbe under." considerable tensionin the substantial direc- .1; tion of theplane in which the plurality ofindividual resilient members 18 isarrangedw It will be seen that in the embodiment of theinvention shown, the individual resilient members 18 of'each pair will'mutually resist each other, but they will at least be placed under such tension transversely oftheir extent as tofurnish 'a considerable resistance against the"plates, slabs, or boards, etc., 17 which are placed against them, as shown in Fig. 2, no matter what the means for pro other, that is to say they are opposite to each,

other. Usually a plurality of individual resilient members, say 18, is first set up and placed under tension, and then the plates,

, slabs and boards, etc., 17, placed in posit-ion cured at the ends. 45

to be supported on one side by said-individual resilient members 18, and then the support which coacts with the individual resilient members'18 is built in position if it be necessary to use it. Under the present invention the built-up partition is supported or hangs from the ceiling so that little, if any, weight is transmitted to the floor beneath said ceiling. The individual resilient members 18 and 24 may also be connected together, either partly or entirely,as by means of ties or bands 25 which extend transversely of the wall, in which case they preferably extend through the joints bef. tween the plates, slabs, boards, etc.,- 17. To

expressthe inatter of these ties 25 differ"- ently, they arethemselvcs supported by the members 18 andas they pass through or be tween the plateslor boards 17 they constitute a supporting meansfor the surface 'at the other side of theall opposite said mem:

the wall will be supported even though members24 or the equivalent are not se;

It is clear that plan sta lim ted thereto. I is obvious that the expansion and contrac inn of the floor may be compensated for by b nding the attached ends of the rods or I bars fhr a short distance, say two inches, at

say an angle of 45 to the-bodies ,thereof' and means beyond the bends in said lower Fi .36 shows how aground, molding, etc.,

as shwn to the left of Figsl and 2. may Secll1'6( l in position by the gripping in I igsl; 1 and 2 may have recesses or holes 28 to beiipngaged by such individual resilient i members. A number of the individual resilient members are shown in Figs. 1, 2 and 7 as composed of two screw-threaded sections to be tightened up, before placingthe trans verse tension thereon, by means of turnbuckle nuts 29, but this may be desirable only in some cases. In order to. secure a plaster-block or the like in position over a frame such as' 12, there may be secured to the channel-bar 15, back to back, a short angle bar 30, while to the opposite channel bar 31 there may be secured a short channel bar 32 in similar manner, a detail of which is shown in Fig. 8. It is, clear that a part of the proper'size may then be fitted and held in position by the bars 30 and 32 as shown in Figs. 1 and2.

Obviously the .present invention is susceptible of modification in other respects, as

parts may be omitted, parts added and parts substituted without departing from the breadth of the invention as expressedin the ing arranged in substantially the vertical plane of sald wall, a series of disconnected ties subjecting successive pairs of said mem= bersvto transverse tension and flexing \the said members of each of said pairs in opposite directions, and a partition supported by the thus stiffened members in a vertical plane, substantially parallel with the said plane of said members.

2. In a wall structure, a ceiling and floor, independent rods rigidlyand individually connected at the ends with said floor and ceiling, and means; for connecting said rods in independent pairs and a for placing the said pairs between said ends the wallstructure of the .pres nt invention may be made either in one i or in any other cross-section as for inde curved. The invention is well adapted for fireproof walls although it is not i 50 silient metallic ties between said ceiling and the combination of floor provided "with lower ends bent up from Y the bodies of said ties, whereby thelower end portions comprising said ends are rendered distensible, means forconnecting the upper endsofsaid ties with said ceiling, 

